SC favours expeditious disposal of constitutional matters

The Supreme Court today sought cooperation from lawyers and expressed its willingness to sit during vacations to hear and decide long pending constitutional matters needed to be heard by larger benches.
"My brother judges are willing to sit during summer vacations to hear constitution bench matters. Everything depends on cooperation from the bar," a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur said.
The remarks came when senior advocate Shyam Divan sought urgent hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the Aadhaar scheme of the central government and said that a five-judge bench be constituted to hear them as they are very important and pertain to people's right to privacy.

The bench, also comprising Justice R Banumathi, said that such a large bench can sit on Mondays and Fridays when judges usually get free by 1:30 pm.